Red Arrows 1967 Oh so close and low !! 

The Gnat was a beautiful aeroplane for The Reds. It had a fantastic rate of roll and it's 45 degree sweep meant that when they were in Diamond they formed a perfect square. It was a shame that they were ageing and had to be replaced, those of us who are old enough to remember, missed them when they went.

Aah! The good old pre- health and safety years...!

Ah yes, the 60s. When the pre-flight briefing consisted of 'remember to go around the 12ft pole'

My father you recently passed away at 99 was an officer in the RAF when this was filmed and had the entire team autograph a photograph which he gave to me. I was 8. Unfortunately shortly after that show two pilots collided and were killed during a scissor cut practice. May they RIP

Any of that kind of stuff today would certainly result in no tea and biscuits meeting with the CAA these days.

That video & music was chaos! Im hung over. Didnt need that RU-vid

As a young boy growing up in the 60’s, we used to watch the ‘Reds’ training over Cardigan Bay. Awesome then, awesome now! Still the best in the world.

Awesome! I went to school as a kid in Gloucestershire, so saw them quite often. One of our teachers was married to an Arrows pilot, and on her birthday the team did a full routine over our school for her! That was in 1972. Prefer the Gnats to the Hawk, TBH.

And they got Ron Burgundy to play his Jazz flute to the display, Amazeballs!

Some time later, Jan 1971, still flying Gnats, the two solos hit each other head on at Kemble, during an opposition manoeuvre `Roulette'. All 4 pilots were killed, including a good friend, John Lewis. RIP guys.

The red arrows displays at the British F1 grand prix’s at Brand Hatch in the 70’s up to the mid 80’s were just bonkers by today’s safety standards. When doing the dual display section of the display, the two aircraft would pass over the grandstands at about 100ft, then drop to about 50-60ft above the track to do the high speed passes. It was stunning to watch but it would have been carnage if something went wrong. It was the also the same when the British Airways Concorde and the Vulcan bomber flew over the track very low (by today’s standards) and climbed away near vertical with the afterburners lit up, the sound shook everything and everybody. Windows were smashing, pint glasses vibrating off of tables and women and kids screaming.

Amazing pilots. That music... pure gold!

you have to go to airshows in eastern europe to see this sort of thing nowadays

Ah the good old days, when everything had a porn soundtrack

I remember being at the 1977 British GP and being seeing the way the Red Arrows being so low they left their smoke in the grass… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I was a civy driver at RAF Cranwell and they asked for a volunteer to take a tanker down to North Weald to refuel the Red Arrows. I volunteered and from memory it was a Bank holiday 1967. I was a way 3 days, 1 day to get there, 1 day at the display and 1 day to get back. The tanker was on a S type Bedford with a petrol engine. Not very fast hence a day to get there and a day to get back.

Big up for the old RAF Church Fenton Displays, those were the days before being placed 3 miles away from the action.

I was lucky enough to see the red arrows perform locally in Southport and it was gorgeous very talented chaps. Can’t lie❤

Low flying as well as following the contours of the runway. That’s the puppy. 😀

Holy mother of incredible insanity that take off!

Those take-offs were amazing!!

1960's tech with 1960's video editing and Jazz flute. Nice!

An era when Air Force was about charm, style, personality and hotshot aviators.

Aaah the good old days before health and safety! Lol pretty amazing video! 😁👍

Remember these air shows well. Folland Gnat back in those days.

That is very early in the Red Arrows careers: five planes and no white stripes. Just the Yellowjacks re-painted!

That clip of the Gnat (Ray Hanna?) following the undulation of the runway brings new meaning to "terrain following".

Stunning footage...the Arrows were truly breathtaking with the Gnat..

Taking of like that made the Folland Gnat look like Swallows or Swifts, small birds, especially the wing configuration, high on the fuselage or when ducks glide.

The little swept-wing Folland Gnat jet trainer as used in the 1991 movie " Hot Shots ! " a parody on Top Gun ...

How well I remember them flying like this. I worked as a civilian clerical assistant at RAF Kemble, Gloucestershire when The Reds were stationed there. We got to see them practising almost every day during our lunch hours. I loved the Folland Gnat; they were far more daring in those days (no safety regulations). I was so upset when they were moved to RAF Scampton. I rarely see them nowadays but usually get a glimpse when they perform at RIAT each year as RAF Fairford is only about 10 miles from where I live in Cirencester. They are the best in the world!!!

Ah the Gnat, such a lovely aircraft.

Fabulous. THATS LOW FLYING!!

Much better & daring than today's boring Red Arrows displays

When we were young we knew no fear

ps: the soundtrack is what makes this so special.

The 2 dislikes are inverted pilots.....

Used to live near RAF Shawbury, and they’d fly over our house in Grinshill during practice flights, awesome👍👍

Ron Burgundy is crushing it, 😄

Remember watching a pan English Electric Lighting do a similar very low runway fly past at an RAF air show for the RAF back in the 1980’s. We the crowd were kept safe standing behind a rope very close to the runway.

Amazing aircraft. Saw them flying across the rooftops in Portsmouth as a child

I love the cheesy music. They were proper hooligans of the skies back then.

The Gnat was a beautiful aircraft.

Gnats still flying at North Weald...just up the road

Fookin Hell, imagine the health and saftey nazi in the RAF watching this today his piles would have burst.

Closer to the ground than the motorcycle display team. Nice!

Hot shots!

Yeah they still had gnats when I was a kid and though they were choreographed, they were flying by the seat of their pants. It was really something to see. The gnat was a beautiful little aeroplane, it's a shame we don't still have them. I bet the running costs would be a little more palatable. Sweet little bird 👍✌️☮️❤️

The Folland Gnat was a much better aerobatic aircraft being smaller and able to roll in well under 1 second.

I REALLY DON'T CARE what.othrrs say THESE ARE THE BEST , (GREATEST) in the world They are DEFINITELY 2nd to NONE!!!!

Air shows were different in the 1950's-70's; I should know: my dad was a USAF fighter pilot, career 1951-1983, and thru his early specific position, knew many of the Thunderbird pilots over successive teams during the 60's-70's. But for me as a military brat/plane nut, they were so low you could count rivets, how many fingers on one hand, and my fave....the smell of JP-4. Awwww....the sound and smell of freedom.

Best of the best... They are really so close

Seeing the folland gnats reminds me of hot shots 1 😂

How odd the rest of the film is no longer available on youtube - or anywhere else for that matter....

Reminds me of the "Hot Shots" movie.

These were the original Danger Men!

Pilot Officer Smith, a bit low on that session, sharpen the response up hmmm? Yessir.

Is that Ron Burgundy on the jazz flute?

I actually saw them when I was a kid. We were on holiday and the were flying nearby. thinking back later I remember my late dad mentioning who they were and had only started that year.

I grew up seeing these and others at airshows,these there is something a miss with them,I use to watch them doing cows the isle of wight as it fell around my birthday I always get really emotional seeing them,but now I feel as though the spark has gone there always seems to be problems I was going to see them at Bournemouth airshow and didn't go they had a birdstrike they are loosing their spark which is so sad to see

The music on the video dates the film!

I remember these red arrow jets going over our house in 1967 as a kid you could see the pilots white helmet they were that low..I think they were called Nats.

Ray Hanna was team leader back then and he liked to fly super low. I was at Brighton as a kid and one of them hit a yacht between the piers and had to eject.

Low flying doesn't impress pilots. They call it "coming into land with the undercarriage up!" The real skill is in the close formation flying. Having said that there was a time when an American visitor to RAF Honington where I was based commented on the low level flying capabilities of the Buccaneer. He got a demonstration laid on as he watched from the balcony if air traffic control. A height of about 40 feet at most. The aircraft flew up and down the runway area and then to complete the demo he flew past air traffic control at a height that put his cockpit lower than the balcony and his wing tips just missing the building. That was flying at low level. A photograph was taken of the pilot which later hung in ops. I did not see him pass the control tower. I just saw a plane coming towards me at about 40 feet and climbing. I was actually walking towards the tower. I ducked! But what a sight. The year was somewhere around 1978.

Some of this is at Little Rissington. Did readers know that the aircraft sounds for Thunderbirds were recorded there. Apparently the most useful sound wasn't an aircraft but a machine used to start aircraft so I assume that was Thunderbird 2.

1:35 Hats of to the cameraman, who was not far off having no head, yet alone a hat.

Let's take a moment to recognize Ron Burgundy on the jazz flute

Kudos to the cameraman

Big contrast to the modern day thinking of oh its raining we will stay on the ground instead attitude.

Back wn the red arrows where fun 😄

The wonderful, beautiful, Folland Gnat. And boy are they low going down that runway. Little Rissington?

Love the editing 😍

The Yellowjacks Gnat G-MOUR is still on the register in private hands. Based at North Weald.

I loved the idea of weight saving in the Gnat. Why fit dive brakes when you can just use the main gear doors?

Damn! The were low

Those look similar to the planes they used in Hot Shots.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Brilliant. I love it. Thanks for uploading this.

I remember seeings the gnats at Biggin Hill when I was a kid. I think I preferred them to the hawks.

The Gnat .. I believe the aircraft here ..

Groovy Baby

Remember well the little red gnats at Gaydon 1966.!

Super impressive!

I forgot the Red Arrows used to fly the Gnat aircraft. Have there always been 9 aircraft in the team? As only 5 were seen in the film, just wondered if that's how they started.

Ray Hanna....

I remember this appearing in a video with Raymond Baxter.

Awesome mate! 👍✈️

The editing made almost feel animated

World's best air acrobatics team.

Ron Burgundy approves of the music choice.

Spectators advised not to stand in front of these mad buggers😅

If the Reds minimum height was 35ft at the time, it must have been measured from 10ft above the fin!

There was a story, and I know not if it were true. That if a particular fuse was removed, the Gnat would roll a lot quicker. So the fuse was removed.

I seen one nearly hit the ground north of Cambridge, Waterbeach

Ray Hanna flew with the reds whilst they still flew the folland gnat..

0:45 was away close to that light marker.

They wouldn’t be able to fly that low today,too dangerous!

Amazing how these planes were able to take off carrying the weight of the pilots' massive balls.

The health and safety toffs are pulling their hair out watching this.this is what the RAF should be like the best of the best.and not having to worry that they are flying two feet lower than they should.

The good old Gnat, the predecessor to the now used BAE Hawk T1. If only we were allowed to put on air shows like that still, but the health & safety brigade would have a stroke if they watched this video. When pilots were allowed to show off true stick n rudder controls. I love hearing about the old stories of the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm & later the RAF pilots who when practicing or on military exercises in the Buccaneer and even red flag “arguments” that there’s no way we could of bombed targets because we weren’t detected until real proof was gained by range controls or other methods proving we had. Just because those guys could fly sooo low, going underneath power lines (there are some great pics out there if you hunt for them) I’ve seen a few where I was sure if they put their landing gear down it would of hit the ground. Those glorious days are now far behind us. Ex Eastern block countries still don’t have much health n safety and if u can it well worth going to one of those air shows as they still fly, maybe not as well, but they still put on an awesome show.